Tina Arena has revealed that her teenage son no longer lives with her.
The 56-year-old says her 18-year-old son, Gabriel, left Australia permanently in response to Victoria’s harsh lockdown laws during the height of the Covid pandemic.
The teenager now lives with his father, French artist Vincent Mancini, in Paris.
‘It’s been there for the last three years. Gabriel eventually decided to leave Victoria during lockdown because, like many young children, he couldn’t stand being locked up at home. None of us did,’ Tina says in this week’s edition of Stellar Magazine.
‘We were supposed to suck it up and shut up. “I still struggle with that, and that’s why I talked a lot too.”
Tina said the experience “was a heartbreaking moment for the family because the family fell apart.”
Tina and Vincent, who had been together since 2000, split almost five years ago, and she admits: “We’re all fine now, thank God, but it was brutal.
‘So when your only child decides to leave because he needs to be able to walk the streets and have a sense of freedom and be a little boy and learn, I got really angry at the state, at Australia, and at them being so docile.’
Tina Arena (pictured) has revealed that her teenage son no longer lives with her. The 56-year-old says her 18-year-old son, Gabriel, left Australia permanently in response to Victoria’s harsh lockdown laws during the height of the Covid pandemic.
Tina admits she was “quite traumatized” by the whole experience.
‘I ended up going to therapy and I feel very comfortable saying that I get therapy regularly. Because I was very unhappy,” he told the publication.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews divided opinion by installing six lockdowns, totaling 262 days since March 2020.
For many Victorians, Andrews was the face of pain and misery, a man who had caged them for the longest period of time on the planet during Covid 19.
In 2020, Tina confessed that she was “struggling” to homeschool her teenage son while in isolation amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The teenager now lives with his father, French artist Vincent Mancini, in Paris. Photographed as a baby
‘It’s been there for the last three years. Gabriel eventually decided to leave Victoria during lockdown because, like many young children, he couldn’t stand being locked up at home. None of us did,’ Tina said. In the photo with the former Mancini. They separated in 2019 after almost 20 years together
The pop star said stellar magazine that Gabriel, then 14 years old, was “traumatized.”
She said: ‘I’m struggling. I get emails from teachers saying, ‘Gabriel hasn’t turned in this and that…”
The star confessed that her son was more interested in playing his Xbox than doing his schoolwork.
Tina added: ‘But we’ll get there. Our children are traumatized. They can’t see their teammates, it’s hard.’
The Australian singer began dating Vincent Mancini in 2000 and they broke up around 2019.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews (left) divided opinion by installing six lockdowns totaling 262 days since March 2020. For many Victorians, Andrews was the face of pain and misery, a man who had caged them inside for the longest period of time on the planet
Tina has been in a relationship with Swedish musician Mattias Lindblom, 53, since 2021. They are rumored to have secretly married. In the photo together
Tina has been in a relationship with Swedish musician Mattias Lindblom, 53, since 2021.
In January, Tina hinted that they had secretly married when she dated AGantique band adorning the ring finger of his left hand.
Tina was first seen wearing an engagement ring in November 2022, when she was seen wearing the diamond while gardening at her Melbourne home.
She has been ‘quietly dating’ Mattias since August 2021, according to women’s day.
Mattias is believed to live with Tina in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.
“This relationship looks and feels different than previous ones,” a source reportedly told Woman’s Day. “It’s been really easy, from the beginning.”
Tina was last married to her former manager Ralph Carr, with whom she had a tumultuous union from 1995 to 1999.
Read more in this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine